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by duhast 7y ago
Independent civil service exists to provide: 1) continuity of government function in presence of political instability, elections etc. 2) higher level of comptency across government employees ( career bureaucrats) Essentially you don't
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by duhast 7y ago
More here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/12/14/boris-johnso... http://theconversation.com/dominic-cummings-wants-to-add-mor... https://www.theguardian.com/com
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by duhast 7y ago
Idea of an independent civil service (or justice system) is being threaten more generally recently. Countries that come to mind: US, Hungry, Poland, Turkey and recently also UK (Mr. Cummings, chief advisor to PM stating that UK civil servic
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by duhast 7y ago
StarLink will be blocked in countries like China or Russia or they will have to follow their law. Thought experiment: Can you imagine Russian satcom provider providing Internet service to US based customers in violation of the US law? Rarel
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by duhast 7y ago
Infinitely?
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by duhast 8y ago
> And if we don't want to use American sanctions laws as a baseline, the alleged violations all happened while U.N. sanctions were in effect. UN sanctions cover mostly military and nuclear equipment - I don't believe that eit
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by duhast 8y ago
> Huawei stole a Canadian company's technology [1] I can believe that. But how is this related? > markets products in America > has issued dollar-denominated debt > and then went and violated sanctions in dollar-deno
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by duhast 8y ago
This is how I see it: 1) US signed disarmament treaty with Iran and EU 2) US unilaterally leaves the treaty and introduces sanctions against Iran 3) Chinese company continues to sell goods to Iran 4) Executive of said company
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by duhast 8y ago
It's hard to count the number of major improvements that landed in GCC since the inception of clang. Competition in this landscape is benefiting everyone.
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by duhast 8y ago
EPYC supports up to 8 memory channels where as Threadripper only 4.
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by duhast 8y ago
width in this context means number of CPU execution ports or how many INT/FP operations CPU core can perform at the same time
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by duhast 8y ago
> Trump wants a 25% tariff on every EU car, he is going to welcome such a suicidal move by the EU. BMW largest car factory is located in Spartanburg, South Carolina, US. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_in_the_U
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by duhast 9y ago
Tesla revenue in 2017 exceeded 12bln$. How is Tesla “little”?
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by duhast 9y ago
I couldn't find exact numbers but it seems like Must owns around 20% of Tesla. Some shares are locked down and secure around 1.6B of loans from Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Not sure if Musk will be actually making any decisions he
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by duhast 9y ago
Comparisons like that always assume the that price is constant with increased demand even when world GDP is spent on something. What would likely happen is first the price would go up and later down as the world manufacturing would shift to
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by duhast 10y ago
Linux on embedded systems? I guess maybe also performance? No MMU means no TLB misses, page tables etc.
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by duhast 10y ago
You can use dot as well: foobar.dontspamme@gmail.com
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by duhast 10y ago
I never said that. Thanks for -1.
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by duhast 10y ago
FPGA and CPU together is nothing new. AMD started offering Fiji + HBM in 2015 and recently nVidia joined with their Pascal + HBM2. Intel is lagging in general due to lack of competition.
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by duhast 10y ago
What about component models?
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by duhast 10y ago
ARM has not sold a single chip in 2015 but 200+ partner companies that integrate ARM into theirs SoC together with quite sophisticated tech like modems, GPU's, accelerators of any kind etc. In many cases real estate taken by ARM is bel
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by duhast 10y ago
But where is your data stored?
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by duhast 10y ago
Just as a reminder for people interested in buying JR pass: 1) not all trains all included (fastest Shinkansen Nozomi is not for example) 2) can't be bought in Japan 3) valid for 7/14/21 days from the first use More info here
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by duhast 11y ago
This is how people watch fireworks these days: through small screen of their phone while recording the scene.
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by duhast 11y ago
You can find it here: https://www.digikey.com/product-search/en/inductors-coils-ch...
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by duhast 11y ago
It's amazing how you can deliver world most used software without unit testing.
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by duhast 11y ago
Tesla demonstrated battery swap in less than 2 minutes. So it is at least technically possible.
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by duhast 11y ago
Hardware was also funded by tax payers.
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by duhast 11y ago
What safer languages you would recommend?
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by duhast 11y ago
I wonder: why this publicly funded code isn't available for download on GitHub or NASA website. Is this because Russians and Chinese can "steal" it and send another Curiosity to Mars?

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